Patel legacy

what is common with sardar patel and narinder modi? is he justified in claiming his legacy? earlier rss claimed swami vivekanand and led a countrywide campaign? now patel. next it may be lala lajpat rai, madan mohan malviaor, subash bose and bhagat singh.
it is clear rss has no legacy of its own, it has a distorted vision of hinduism. a communalalised blind nationalistic. therefore it tries to appropriate the legacy of others for its own purpose. it uses the views of others selectively-topi wala bhagat singh who sings songs of mother india(ignoring his atheism, secular and socialistic outlook),
it uses vivekanand with his safforn robe and love of ancient past(ignoring his inclusive approach and broadminded approach).
it uses patel for his'strong leadership' (ignoring his gandhism, democratic and anti-imprealistic approach).
the fault also lies with congress that overlooked the legacy of broad based freedom struggle and sought to emphasise more on gandhi and nehru and of recently focussing only on indira and rajiv.
fascism usually covers its naked devilish face with the good of others,
we need be cautious, modi can;t be patel.
patel helped india stand united. modi is leading it towards dismemberment.

daily we watch or made to watch modinama or rahulgaan at tv channels.the anchors think that there is no other politics or politician worth a name.twenty eight, nay, now tilangana include twenty nine ones have more ideas about india than these two. why congress is getting trapped into rss-bjp gameplan of turning the coming election into presidential one like that of america. just think how much you know about the seven north eastern sisters(states) or the knitty gritty of other states?  the vast tribal lands of bastar or the western ghats? the northern limits of ladhakh or the southern tip of andamans? or perhaps like modi, many may seek to locate taxila in bihar? alas! the sad game is we are made to forget that we are a big land of diversities.          the regional leaders who voice the concerns of forgotten hinterlands, plateaus, valleys, ravines, jungles and hilltops are as much great indians as the i, me, my of ahmedabad and delhi. listen to them. they are daughters and sons of hindustan that your shining india fail to recognise. you may find them shopping even in the palika bazar of delhi or jockeying jobs in software parks of bangluru. india will be a poor country if made to do with just two-raga and namo. we are no america.

bhagwan singh josh from jnu writes

Comrades don’t need to be communists-Pro. Bhagwan Singh Josh (JNU New delhi)

The disinteration of the Russion block was no less than a historical explosion.              Not only marxism faded in its sheen but also the basic structure of communist parties came into a question with this explosion. The main issues and questions are no longer the same as they were before the fall of the Russion block. The entire world has changed. Many other contradictions beset the humanity alongwith the old ones.

The main question in the context of India is :can the future of a party that calls itself communist  be bright under a democratic political system?

The communist parties functioning these days in India are all the remnants of that

 Party which was envisioned in 1920-25 but came to form itself only after 1925. Then a party of such Leninist structure was conceptualised because the Third International had a faith ‘that world revolution is just round the corner in a few years.’ The world revolution did not materalise but ‘the structure’ prepared for it remained intact and still continuing in distorted form.

If we look closely at the politics of the democratic countries across the globe, we will find the possibility of four types of political streams to emerge in this system  that have a distinct existence despite inter-related among themselves. These four streams can be described as under:

Extreme left---Centre left***CENTRE*** Centre Right---Extreme Right

Out of these four, the task of two political streams is just to influence the other two political streams. Under the democratic system, both these extreme streams make a lnk with the centre only through the politics  and ideologies of the centre left or centre right. Both these extreme streams can never get a majority themselves. In democracy, all these streams are linked with the centre. This centre is the mainstream of the national politics and remains shifting this way or that. The consciousness of the national majority also remains hovering round the centre. The only two streams linked with this centre-the centre left or the centre right have the possibility of winning the majority in the national elections. One of these two streams can manage to form and run the govt on its own or through an alliance.

In such democratic system, communist party or parties can never gain a majority. They can can only propagate the issues. They think that we are the voice of the people but the people donot vote for them but they vote for the centre left or the centre right. Thus these parties end up  propagating the problems of the people. P.C.Joshi used to say: The workers seek the solutions of their salaries and other facilities through the communist leadership but vote by and large for the congress.

The question arises if all the industrial labour do vote for the communists, even then the the communist parties can not gain a victory in this system.They can not become the party/parties of the majority of the nation. They can onle influence the centre left or the centre right. There can be historic turns when the potential of their impact is substantial as during the first term of the UPA, Manmohan singh Govt depended  almost entirely on the support of the CPM. Such was the climax of influence.

Even such influence does not carry the weight to turn the entire politics towards a pro-people orientation. This task can be accomplished only by the party that forms a majority govt and ensures the implementation of the pro-people programe.

Thus, in democratic system the parties  that have the ability to form a govt with centre left politics are only the social democratic paties, not the communist parties.

The communist parties instead can prove a hurdle in the path of the emergence of such a political party. They can not change themselves into a socail democratc paty because in their seed form, they are Leninist that in spirit are hostile to social democratic parties. Nor they smoothen the path of emergence and spread of such social democratic parties. They condemn these parties as anti -revolutionary.

At present, the communist parties in India have bestowed the centre left space to the Congress at their own voliation. Therefore , the Congress is the only party whose politics is spread over the centre Left space left vacant by the Communists.. Although, The congress is a conservative  social democratic party but it succeeds as  presenting itself as a Left wing Social democratic party before the masses. Its hegemony was challenged only when the extreme right party BJP left its space temorarily to adopt centre –right politics and won a majority in alliance with other parties. But BJP is incapable today to evolve as rightwing social democratic party. Similarly the communist parties are also not able to emerge as radical social democratic parties at the national level. Due to  the inability of both the parties ,The congress has both the spaces –centre Left and the centre right.

In this way, The entire politics, programme and the economic policies of  the congress    end up as a mixture of both the spaces. Th hegemony of the congress will remain intact until the communist remainfixed  in their extreme left postion and the BJP on its extreme right.  The congress in itself is not a big force as has been made both the streams- the extreme left and the extreme Right.. Most of the time, the power of  a party  does not depend upon its own capability but the the internal weakness and wrong political approach of the opposition parties.

The people will continue to search the alternative of the congress elsewhere until the communist parties shed their bureaucatic structure behind and present themselv es as a new movement and a party of the broad Left before the people and win their confidence. Only a radical social democratic party can implement the entire people oriented programmes and promises of the Congress. Until such a party emerges and wins the confidence of the people, the implementation of congress programmes and policies will remain loose/and distored in form. The communist parties can criticise the congress hard. And most of the times, this criticism is  also  correct and convincing but they cannot put before the people a viable pro-people alternative in reality without evoloving as a party of the broad left.

The problems of Punjab are related with agriculture, the atocities on the dalits and women, the pollution of envirnment and education. To find the social solutions  of these problems , the comrades of Punjab don’t need to form a communist party but organise a radical democratic movement. The need of the hour is make the youth thinking and radical democrats. Not the communists.

newthinkingindian appears without  capital letters. the reason is that there is no big or small in our eyes, be it letters or the people. so called big names may cause blunders and really small can throw big ideas. the man in the street is as important as a c.e.o. of a multinational co. delhi may fail at times despite being the capital city and a stray village can teach the nation the path to development.